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Editor's note: This is part of an everyday series exploring individual line items in state and local budgets. Read the entire series at www.dailypress.com/watchdog. POQUOSON — The city of Poquoson annually budgets $12,000 for charges it incurs for credit card payments, bad checks and other banking services. But since fiscal year 2010, the line item has been exceeded each year, and the treasurer has had to adjust to offset the expense. The city is often able to recoup the costs associated with some of its transactions with the bank, according to Treasurer Stephen Clarke. For instance, the city charges $35 for a returned check and an additional 2.5 percent for transactions...

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Editor's note: This is part of an everyday series exploring individual line items in state and local budgets. Read the entire series at www.dailypress.com/watchdog.
POQUOSON — The city of Poquoson annually budgets $12,000 for charges it incurs for credit...

RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is considering expanding health coverage for the poor without the approval of the state legislature, a move that would muscle his top priority past Republican opponents but also throw his young administration...

Newport News Shipbuilding and NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton are feeling the pinch of budget uncertainty in Washington, but Sen. Tim Kaine says Congress might clear that up in the coming weeks.
The Virginia Democrat toured both facilities...

ISLE OF WIGHT — The Isle of Wight Board of Supervisors approved a county-wide property value reassessment earlier this year after postponing the biennial reassessment last year in an effort to save the county money.
Under the proposed budget for next...

High school coaches in Hampton have become accustomed to receiving lower supplemental pay than their counterparts in the 757. Which makes one thing fairly clear: They were never in this for the money.But when the Hampton School Board passed its budget for...

Editor's note: This is part of a daily series exploring specific line items in state and local budgets.
RICHMOND – It will cost an estimated $1.35 billion next year to provide health insurance for 293,500 state and local government employees, early...

Editor's note: This is part of a daily series examining specific line items in state and local budgets.
ISLE OF WIGHT — The continued care of a landfill the county closed years ago will cost Isle of Wight $326,000 next year under the current budget...

With more than $270 million already spent and more on the line, state transportation officials are working against the clock to keep the state's U.S. 460 project from becoming an unmitigated disaster.
Not an inch has been paved. Taxpayers have already...

Editor's note: This is part of an everyday series exploring line items from state and local budgets.
York County budgets about $4,500 annually to replenish the sand along its waterfront property in Yorktown.
The naturally occurring Yorktown Beach...

The Board of Supervisors is targeting as a possible item to cut from the fiscal year 2014-15 budget its annual $45,000 contribution to the Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society.
At a work session Tuesday night, the supervisors questioned why the county gives...

Gov. Terry McAuliffe did his routine "Ask the Governor" interview this morning on WTOP/103.5 FM in D.C.
Medicaid expansion and the state budget, of course, dominated much of the discussion. No big news to report, though McAuliffe did offer a...

Whither now for Medicaid expansion and state Sen. Emmett Hanger's stab at compromise?
That is the question. For now, it seems, we marinate. We see if this is the potential breakthrough it sounded like for about 15 minutes there, before Senate...

NEWPORT NEWS — THRIVE Peninsula has been around for more than 40 years, but it's also brand new.
The faith-based nonprofit aid organization was formerly known as Denbigh United Christian Outreach. It is a collaboration between local churches and...

Huntington Ingalls Industries recently received good news for its Newport News Shipbuilding division: The refueling of an aircraft carrier, a job worth billions of dollars and once in danger, now seems on course.
Now comes HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding...

The Mariners’ Museum reopened its giant USS Monitor conservation lab this week after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — which administers the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary — agreed to provide a one-year funding allocation of...

I know you have wondered: Can this Medicaid fight get any wilder? The answer is yes.
From scoop machine Jim Nolan at the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
At the urging of House Speaker William J. Howell, the clerk’s office of the House of Delegates enlisted the...

A few questions remain about just what happened last night as the Virginia General Assembly tinkered with some Medicaid language in its budget.
Republicans who don't want to see Medicaid expand came into the day as the obvious winners. Then they...

The die is all but cast: Virginia's 2015-16 budget passed the Senate Finance Committee late this afternoon and it's headed for fast track votes this evening in both the House and Senate.
Senate Democrats, who pushed hard to include Medicaid expansion...

The following statement came today from state Sen. Lynwood Lewis, D-Accomack, the only Senate Democrat to vote last night in favor of the amended state budget.
"I have been a supporter from day one on this most important policy issue, to close the...

Gov. Terry McAuliffe has signed the state's 2015-16 budget. His line-item veto messages are pasted below.
There's one new one, which wasn't mentioned Friday, at the bottom. It deals with how much information the executive branch must provide to the...